Russian organized Crime - Ethnographic Study

Russian organized Crime - Ethnographic Study

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the new phenomenon of Russian organized crime has been increased. For last ten years, Russian organized crime has dominated Russian economy, politics, and daily life and threatened the world order. However, the phenomenon of Russian organized crime has been little understood. The causes of such dynamic process have not been satisfactorily estimated. Most researches of the phenomenon still exist in narrative manner. This research is a genuine attempt to uncover the dynamic process of the increase of Russian organized crime. For doing so, the researcher designed a theoretical frame. Four independent effects, the weakening of the dominant belief, the weakening of the physical force, the incapability of the economic feeding, and the disturbance of the conventional social success are identified. The researcher hypothesizes that these four main effects and the interaction effects between them impacted on the increase of Russian organized crime. Ethnographic method is used for this research. The researcher spent approximately 8 months in a middle size city in Russia. Local residents were interviewed qualitatively. Accidental and snowball sampling method were adopted. In addition, Russian journal articles were also used to complement the research purpose. The findings and limitations are discussed.